Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd

Lucy Page Mercer ( born April 26, 1891 in Washington DC; † July 31, 1948 in New York City ) was the private secretary of Eleanor Roosevelt and longtime mistress of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Life

Lucy Page Mercer was born into a prominent family from Maryland. 1913 caught the 22 -year-old and attractive Mercer as a secretary at Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of then -Senator Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was in their circle of friends with queued. While Eleanor was elsewhere, whose husband paid court to her. Their close relationship came to an abrupt end when Franklin was recovering from a double lung inflammation and Eleanor vorfand the love letters from Mercer from his private correspondence in September 1918. After thirteen years of marriage, Eleanor offered Franklin a divorce; to his career not to gamble, but Franklin refused. Eleanor insisted that Franklin gave up his mistress. He promised her to see her but behind her back until his death. Mercer had left the position at Eleanor and was now working as an assistant at the United States Navy. Adept with the Liaison also acted Eleanor's cousin Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth by the two often invited to dinner at his home. In 1920, Lucy Mercer married in Washington wealthy widower Winthrop Rutherfurd († 1941). After the death of her husband, Franklin and Rutherfurd met again in Washington regularly, even in the White House when Eleanor was out due to their political activities. Lucy Rutherfurd was also at Franklin's side, as this at his country home in Warm Springs, Georgia, died.

Lucy Rutherfurd died in 1948 from the effects of leukemia and was in the cemetery of Green Township, New Jersey, buried.